But two days after the Bihar government’s announcement, hundreds of families were still lined up outside the Beur Central Jail in Bihar’s Patna on Wednesday, waiting for relatives to be released. “It has been five days since they have kept him inside the jail,” Kumar said. Scroll spoke to several families outside the Patna central jail, who recounted how their relatives were picked up from protests, without their families being informed of their whereabouts. Muksesh Kumar waits outside the Patna central jail, where his brother Jairam has been kept since the night of July 26. Family members waiting outside the central jail.